. Britain's birds and their nests . edescribed in the text. We are told how the parent-birds brought Grouse and Rabbits to their offspring,having first plucked them elsewhere, and how at firstthe young bird (only one survived) was fed by themother-bird on titbits, such as the liver, while she atethe rest; and so on with all the details in the daily round of the first eleven weeks of the Eaglefs it forsakes the eyrie, but it is still protected andfed for some two months longer. And finally the de-voted parents, who for five long months have tendedtheir offspring with loving care, turn
. Britain's birds and their nests . edescribed in the text. We are told how the parent-birds brought Grouse and Rabbits to their offspring,having first plucked them elsewhere, and how at firstthe young bird (only one survived) was fed by themother-bird on titbits, such as the liver, while she atethe rest; and so on with all the details in the daily round of the first eleven weeks of the Eaglefs it forsakes the eyrie, but it is still protected andfed for some two months longer. And finally the de-voted parents, who for five long months have tendedtheir offspring with loving care, turn on him as a foeand drive him forth into the outer world. Many stories there are of the Eagles ferocity, andits attacks on human beings near its nest; but what-ever the truth of these, the testimony of the carefulobserver referred to is that of all our shy birds theEagle is the most timid, and generally remains out ofsight for an hour or more if disturbed from its nest,which, in the early stages, it is even prone to Plate 57. WHITE-TAILED OR ^^—Haliaeius albiciila. Length, 33 in. ; wing, 24 in. [ACCIPITRES : Falconidae.] X 186 BRITAINS BIRDS AND THEIR NESTS. 187 THE WHITE=TAILED OR SEA=EAQLE (Haliaetus albicilla).Plate 57. In the Erne, to use the fine old name of the birdnow more generally called the Sea-Eagle, or White-tailed Eagle, we have a representative of a group allied tothe typical Eagles, the chief of which we have just Sea-Eagle is on an average a trifle larger thanthe Golden Eagle, but it is a bird of less noble and im-posing mien. The plumage is altogether much grayer, andin the adult the tail is pure white, and the head andneck very pale in colour. A comparison of the respec-tive plates will reveal a very noticeable difference in theproportions of the beak and the feathering of the legs. Most of the Eagles which occur in England belongto this species, for the Sea-Eagles of northern Europeappear to be migratory in some degr
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